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  • The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully.

    Source: www.straitstimes.com
  • The voice of the sea speaks to the soul.

    Beach   Nature   Ocean  
    1899 The Awakening, ch.6.
  • A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.

    1987 Address at Trinity College, Washington. Reported in Time, 22 Jun.
  • Canada is like an old cow. The West feeds it. Ontario and Quebec milk it. And you can well imagine what it's doing in the Maritimes.

    "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com. June 29, 1983.
  • Well the most likely emerging countries are Japan, Turkey, and Poland. So I would say Eastern Europe, the Middle East and a maritime war by Japan with the United States enjoying its own pleasures.

    Country   War   Japan  
    Source: www.businessinsider.com
  • I lived for a long time under vast porticos That maritime suns tinted with a thousand fires, And whose great pillars, straight and majestuous In the evening made seem like basaltic caves.

    Fire   Long   Pillars  
  • We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

    Hope   Wind   Sea  
  • If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

    War   Decision   Would Be  
  • Close with a Frenchman, but out-maneuver a Russian.

  • No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

    War   Sea   Rebellion  
    Samuel Eliot Morison (1965). “the Oxford History of the American People \”
  • Since time immemorial it had been the custom before a sea battle for the men to wash and don clean clothes in case of being wounded. This was all the more necessary under these circumstances, as many of them were still covered with coal dust.

    Men   Dust   Sea  
    Richard Hough (2003). “Naval Battles of the Twentieth Century”, p.33, The Overlook Press
  • At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

    Sea   Sailing   Nautical  
  • That a modern battleship of 48,000 tons would have to defend itself against wood and fabric biplanes with its main armament was a salutary reminder of the changing face of sea warfare.

    Sea   Warfare   Fabric  
    Richard Hough (2001). “Great naval battles of the 20th century”
  • This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

    Humble   Pride   Forever  
  • Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.

    In Sir Peter Gretton Former Naval Person (1968) ch. 1
  • With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.

    Military   War   Mistake  
  • If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.

    Men   Sailing   Nautical  
  • An income means life to wretched mortals, but it is a terrible fate to die among the waves.

    Mean   Fate   Income  
  • One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

    Two   Soldier   Sailor  
    John Adams (1809). “Correspondence of the Late President Adams”, p.173
  • You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

    Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”
  • It is a golden chapter in the history of India's maritime security. May INS Vikramaditya, imbibe the radiance of the sun and confidence of victory in each one of us.

  • A lot of people attack the sea, I make love to it.

    Ocean   Sea   People  
  • The Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Act is an important authorization for our country and for our citizens, as we have seen so vividly in the last few weeks.

  • It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

  • Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the supremacy of maritime over territorial power. Pragmatists may deplore this as crude determinism, as another vain attempt to construct a general theory of history. They should reflect on the sort of political philosophy and structures we might now adhere to had the Habsburgs, Bourbons, Bonaparte, Hitler, Stalin or his heirs prevailed in the titanic world struggles of the past four centuries.

    Peter Padfield (2000). “Maritime Supremacy & the Opening of the Western Mind: Naval Campaigns that Shaped the Modern World”, Overlook Books
  • The reason territorial monarchs failed time after time against maritime powers was not that absolutist, non-consensual governments were incapable of building great fleets in peace - quite the reverse - but that they were unable to fund them in the crises of war. Mainly this was because they were forced to divert resources from the fleet to their armies, to fight territorial rivals frequently financed by their maritime enemy from the profits of sea trade.

    War   Army   Fighting  
  • Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.

    Lakes   Rivers   People  
  • The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

    Patience   Beach   Nature  
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
  • It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

  • You don't need to buy a $7 billion company to penetrate maritime security. The Mafia doesn't buy FedEx to smuggle.

    Mafia   Needs   Billions  
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